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Re: [RFC/RFT] rtl8187: Implement rfkill support

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Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-08-26 at 03:43 +0100, Hin-Tak Leung wrote:
> 
>> The rfkill event hard just goes 1 and 0 whenever I slide the switch,
>> regardless of what NM does . e.g. NM set to disable networking has no
>> effect on the 1/0 switch (it happens just depending on the slide
>> switch and nothing else), and nothing changes when NM noticed
>> rfkill'ed if down & decided to if'up and reassociate.
> 
> Right, I just wanted to make sure the switch could be correctly read
> while the interface is down.
> 
>> Basically the rfkill event state just depends on the slide switch,
>> regardless of NM (if it is set to enable wireless networking, it just
>> if up the device again; if it is set to disable, it just stayed
>> disable & the device stay down, but the event state continues to
>> respond to the slide switch).
> 
> Ok. But this isn't making a lot of sense to me, since cfg80211 should
> refuse to UP the device when it's rfkilled.
> 
> Or wait ... are you using compat-wireless?

Yes he is.

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